the beach is in the cute little town of avila and the barn is on the way to the beach filled with animals, tasty treats, fruits and veggies, seasonal pumpkin patches, christmas tress, tractor rides etc

photos not taken by jamie

the next town over is san luis obispo

it's a college town with amazing victorian houses on the way to it's downtown shops and eateries

one of my favorite shops is

PAPER SKY

the owner is the fabulous and kind

JESSICA

she's a gem of a person and her shop is striaght out of a fairy-tale

the 1st time i went in i thought of peter pan

photos via local amazing photagrapher cameron ingalls

i really like visiting coffee shops

especially with my friends

my favorite coffee shop is

SALLY LOO"S

located in san luis obispo

if anthropologie had a coffee shop i think it would like like sally loo's

the owners are adorable

BRANDON & JEN

they redid the shop all on their own and it's so pretty

i love to go there for some yummy waffles and to hear great music

not to mention they have really good coffee

the owners

photos via sally loos

that's just a small glimpse into my little corner of the world

kirra challenged me to show my world so if you feel like sharing yours then i say go for it

Thursday, March 11, 2010

sunshine turns my frown upside-down! i see youspring, your just around the corner. please don't make us wait too long to see thesun-shine day by day?!?! make the rain, go far, far away. put it back in it's cupboard in the clouds. won't cha? then we can have back to back beach days, play baseball, take bike rides & fly kites all while thesuns rays make our faces shine & our souls sing.

so sunshine until your ready to stay we'll make do like we did the other day. we had ourlollipop faces on.

flavors: grape & cream soda

brand: dum dum

consume: by lots of licking of course

left with: sweet sticky faces, fingers, hair, etc

i mean what good is an auntie if she doesn't give her niece her first taste of a dumdumlollipop? sure, i will probably be in trouble but that's what i'm suppossed to do, right? smile & nod in agreement with me. ok little brother?

see everyones happy cause sugar has that effect. raise your sucker in the air judah cause were celebrating high fructose corn syrup & it's yummy effects.

why are they called dum dum: the early company sales manager named the ball-shaped candy on a stick &figured dum dum was a word any child could say.

i remember when i was little our local grocery store gave out freedumdums at the checkout counter. it made the grocery store outings a lot less boring.

favorite flavor as a child: cream soda

what was yours???? remember mystery flavor? why don't you go get some dumdumlollipops for the little sweets in your life & then have them vote here sticky fingers & all for there favorite flavor.

Friday, March 05, 2010

i woke up & forgot to make my bed but most days are like that for me. it was a pretty gloomy friday so i stayed in & watched old classic movies, picked some flowers from my mom's garden & lit some candles. i am a candle girl for sure.

this is one of my favorite candle scents. it's from anthropologie & it smells just like that store. it's called volcano. every time i light it my whole house smells amazing!

this tealight is lighting up a special note one of my best friends wrote me. my best friends from college & there kids came to visit me & my family. the night they left i was getting ready for bed & i found this note on my nightstand. it was the best surprise! i miss both of them & the kids already but i am so thankful for our time together because i soak up every second i can have with them.

& new discoveries- like this yellow dish i found in my cupboard today.

this living room & home of manhattan beach designer jill johnson is so pretty. her aqua blue dish inspired me to take my yellow dish out of the cupboard so it could brighten up my house a bit on a day the sun wasn't so shiny.

speaking of brightening things up... this girl sure brightens my days. she is totally into all things girly. like purses, dolls and jewelry.

here she is collecting her first piece of jewelry for the day but she'll be adding more...

i think that's a total of 4 necklaces. she is creative & unique for she likes to wear them on her arms instead of around her cute little neck. that doll in the background was mine when i was little & if you were to see her up close you wouldn't be surprised because she has the rattiest hair from all of her doll years her on earth & she seems to be missing her clothes too but annie can still pretend she's her pretty baby doll.

when i was a little girl i played dress up & had fashion shows daily, i dreamed that someday like cinderella my prince charming would sweep me off my feet.

& the things that brightened my days were always my family. my parents taught me that jesus was the only one who really could fulfill all of my desires because he loved me. so even when i face hard times i know he is always with me.

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About Me

i'm a california girl who lives by the beach & loves to soak up the sun and sand. i like to visit my local coffee shop with my closest friends. the little things in life make me happy & i still get just as excited to go to disneyland as i did when i was 5. i am who i am because of jesus.

Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress (Psalm 4:1 kjv)It is a statment of thanksgiving for having been set free not from suffering but rather through suffering. In stating, "Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress," the psalmist is declaring that the sorrows of life have themselves been the source of life's enlargement......for it is in the shadows of your life that you will find the actuall fulfillment of your dreams of glory. ~George Matheson